HIST 10613 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Greensboro, North Carolina, 16Th Street Baptist Church Bombing, Watts Riots
1950's
The Korean War (1950-1953)
• North Korea invades South Korea
Battle of Inchon
• September 1950
• Gen Douglas MacArthur
Red China Counterattacks
• 1st Marine Division at Chosin Reservoir
Truman and MacArthur
Stalemate and Armistice
• Gen Matthew Ridgway
Election of 1952
• Eisenhower vs Stevenson
• Eisenhower (R ) wins
McCarthy and "McCarthyism"
• Sen. Joseph McCarthy
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
• Oliver brown v board of education of topeka
• Monroe Elementary
Rosa Parks & the Montgomery Bus Boycott
• Refused to give up her seat
Little Rock Nine
• Select group of students chosen for their grades and merit
• First students allowed to be enrolled in the white school
• Governor called Arkansas guard to bar them from enrolling
• Soldiers end up protecting and escorting the students
The Baby Boom
• Great increase in the number of births
• WW2 servicemen come home and want to raise a family of their own and had to "catch up"
• For a healthy country you need a healthy birth rate
Growth of the Suburbs
• Sub urban part of American life
• Many tv shows of the 50's based in the suburbs
Eisenhower and the interstate system
• Eisenhower gets to see Germany's autobahn (main purpose was for military transport)
• Establish a uniform system of multilane highways across the country
Election of 1960
• Kennedy was seen as attractive and young
• People think Nixon did better but tv audiences think Kennedy won because he did very well in the
debates
• Kennedy wins, possible voter fraud
Bay of Pigs Invasion
• Kennedy had to chose to either send air support or not and he didn't therefore the invasion failed
• Happened in Cuba
Kennedy as a Cold Warrior
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